I'll hold a free immersive art event tomorrow at the Radical Reading Room in San Francisco. Participants will be re-conceived in pods. This is part of a larger project funded this year through the Luce-AAR Advancing Public Scholarship Grant. #rebirth #birth

Visualizing Fertility and Birth through Bob Atisso’s “Olokun” Olokun, beach sand sculptureCopyright 2018, Bob Atisso. All Rights Reserved Visualizing Birth has previously looked at themes of birth, maternity, parenting, and children in Bob Atisso’s beau…

Visualizing #fertility and #birth through Bob Atisso's "Olokun" visualizingbirth.org/visualizing-...

Visualizing dilation and birth in the art of Loie Hollowell Five Centimeters Dilated, soft pastel on paperCopyright 2023, Loie Hollowell. All Rights Reserved Returning to the work of Loie Hollowell, a New York based artist who has worked on the topics of pr…

Visualizing dilation and #birth in the art of Loie Hollowell visualizingbirth.org/visualizing-...

The 2025 IS4SI conference is happening this week and I'll present some of my latest research with the paper "Pregnant Robots, Birth Simulators, Artificial Wombs, and Soul Machines: AI and the Emerging Social Ontologies & Technologies in the Delivery Room" #birth #AI #pregnancy

Visualizing Birth through the Murals of Tenaz Partera di Anaku: Tráelo al mundo junto a tus ancestros(The Birth of Anaku: Bring him to the world together with your ancestors)Copyright 2023, Tenaz (William Alvaro Cordova). All Rights reserved. …

Visualizing #birth through the murals of ten #visualization visualizingbirth.org/visualizing-...

Consciousness, the brain, and our chimeric selves | Anna M. Hennessey

The Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv has published my latest article, which explores #microchimerism in a theory of #consciousness and the self. A philosophy of birth is influential to this discussion of the mind iai.tv/articles/con...

I will give an artist talk on my Rebirth Tunnel Immersive Art Installation project at Harvard's upcoming April 2025 conference on Spirituality and the Arts. Information on the history of the project is available here annahennessey.com/rebirth-art-...

Tessa Venuti Sanderson’s Golden thread breath and Blooming Rose Visualization for Dilation Blooming Rose Visualization, video stillCopyright 2014, Tessa Venuti Sanderson. All Rights Reserved. In this beautiful and helpful video (below), Tessa Venuti Sanderson, a UK based yoga instructor …

Video: golden thread breath and blooming rose #visualization for dilation #birth #labor #childbirth #pregnancy visualizingbirth.org/tessa-venuti...

Ancient Roman relief carving of birth Ancient Roman relief carving of a midwife attending a woman giving birth Wellcome Library, London (Image: M0003964EB) I came across this beautiful image recently while reading a book review in The …

Ancient images of birth can be helpful in contemporary #visualization practices during #labor, #birth, and #crowning. What we see during #pregnancy and birth influences our experiences of birth. visualizingbirth.org/ancient-roma...

(Video) Ecstatic Birth – Amazing [graphic] In this incredible video, a young French woman gives birth, attended by her partner and several hospital staff members. She is so joyful and ecstatic, playful even, as she opens up, allowing her ba…

How Dr. Max Ploquin's videos of birth can be used for #visualization purposes. #Birth #visualizationtechniques #labor #childbirth visualizingbirth.org/107977213

Visualizing Birth through Bob Atisso’s Sand Sculptures Baby Born, sand sculpture2m x 1m  x 1.7m, Accra, GhanaCopyright 2015, Bob Atisso, All Rights reserved. Originally from the West African country of Togo, Bob Atisso is now an international figure wh…

Visualizing Birth through Bob Atisso's sand Sculptures #birth #labor #pregnancy #childbirth #visualizationtechniques #visualization visualizingbirth.org/visualizing-...